Robert Rogers was an Anglican priest and AntiquaryHistory of the City of Chester in the second half of the 16th-century."Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum" p521: London; King George; 1808

Rogers was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He was appointed Archdeacon of Chester in 1566"History of the city of Chester, from its foundation to the present time : with an account of its antiquities, curiosities, local customs, and peculiar immunities; and a concise political history" Hemingway, J Chester' J. Fletcher; 1831 p.325 and Canon of Chester Cathedral in 1580, holding both positions until his death in 1595.

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